Sony, Microsoft Talk Xbox 360 Blu-ray Support

Sony Electronics US president Stan Glasgow stated yesterday that the companies were discussing the possibility of Microsoft adopting the format. Whether or not this would take the form of a hardware revision with a built-in Blu-ray player or an external add-on peripheral similar to Microsoft's HD DVD player was not specified.

"We've already been working on, for example, in Windows, device driver support for Blu-ray drives and the like, and I think the world moves on," Ballmer said. "Toshiba has moved on. We've moved on, and we'll support Blu-ray in ways that make sense."

Rumors have been circulating of a Blu-ray player add-on coming as early as May. Though Microsoft has not discounted the possibility of Blu-ray support for the Xbox 360, the company has not yet made any official announcement or plans concerning the format.